overclocking my CPU, FSB, adn my vid card

[-ammo-]

Is this an easy thing to do? Some of you that have done this could you share your experiences?

[Raubvogel]

With the video card you have, overclocking is not going to yield very much of a gain. It is extremely limited in memory bandwidth. Overclocking your CPU or FSB isn't going to help because the video card is your bottleneck.

[-ammo-]

Yea, you are right of course. However I will have a Geforce 3 before long (soon, oh so soon ) and it cant hurt to have my CPU and my FSB overclocked can it? Would I run into problems installing a new vid card after doing these tweaks?

[Animal]

Ammo, your rig is screaming for an overclock.
If you have a good heatsink+fan combo (and the thermal paste is carefully applied) then up that FSB to 150 and the multilpier to 10, and you will get a nice increase in performance.

I have my athlon 1.4 at 1.5 with fsb 150, and its working like a charm, no crashes, like it was meant to run at that speed.

you wont get a fps increase in ah though, you need a better video card.


If you are gonna overclock the FSB to 150, make sure your ram is good quality (Crucial, Corsair)

also, in my bios (Abit KG7) there is an option to set the PCI bus at a fragment of what the FSB is.
I.E: at 133mhz its set to 3/3/1
At 150, I lowered it to 4/4/1, so I dont overclock my PCI bus too much and cause damage to any PCI card that cant stand that speed.

[mason22]

ammo,

i have that same motherboard. i'm running an XP 1800+ , when i get a chance to OC i'll let you know what i find.

i was also wondering what the best settings for this MB would be, even without OCing.

[Sancho]

Back when all I could afford was a Celeron 300A and a Abit BH6, overclocking to 450 was the shiznit, but 1.4 to 1.5 GHz?  Why bother?

[Animal]

I do not care for the 1.5Ghz number, but for the 150FSB speed. Its a big improvement over 133. Front Side Bus speed is VERY important for the speed of the whole system.


And anyways 1,500 sounds better than 1,400  

[-lynx-]

Animal - what do you get for temperature when OC'ed? I just replaced 1GHz TB with XP 1600+ and my CPU temp went up by ~10C when idle (it's settling at ~40C) with standard 133MHz FSB/10.5 multiplier.

I also changed the fan to some cool looking orb with copper core though - not sure if that might be another reason for temperature hike...

OTOH, when I run 3DMarks now it settles at 44C (used to go up to 50-55C) and the temperature rises slowly... Hmmm...

[Gunthr]

It all depends on your peripherals. I can't get over 140 mhz FSB. Not sure what is the hangup... could be the video, hd, or ram, which have varying willingness to run out of spec. But I'm not too interested in the FSB overclock, because I'm running a GeForce2 GTS and won't see the extra speed anyway. I'm going to unlock this cpu when my ship comes in with the GeForce3...

AMD 1600XP
512 MB Crucial PC2100
7200 RPM ATA 100 WD HD
Shuttle AK31 Mobo
Ledtek GeForce2 GTS 32 MB

[ 11-28-2001: Message edited by: Gunthr ]

[mason22]

ammo, FYI, all i did was change my FSB to 137mhz and she seems to run fine, no probs.

i didn't have time to really get in and see what she would do.

[Animal]

My temperature is a little high, because my case is not very well ventilated and its inside a cabinet in my desk. It idles at 45c and high is 52c
This may seem very high, but considering the Athlon core can stand up to 70c its just fine. I never get hangups or anything.
However I am using a VERY high quality Alpha 8045 heatsink/fan and that may be the only thing keeping my CPU from going above 60c. Great piece of metal, the thing is huge, it uses an 80mm fan instead of the standard noisy 60mm

This christmas I'm gonna get a nice aluminum Lian Li case with good ventilation, and temperatures should go down considerably.